3. Political Pop

Political Pop is a Chinese art movement that derives its content from Western capitalist consumer culture and its style from Western Pop art of the 1960s. Political Pop appeared in Chinese modern art depends on two conditions, political subject and the form of Pop Art. Political Pop simultaneously critiques the resemblance between the ideological power of advertising and the ideological power of Cultural Revolution propaganda. Political Pop Artist often use iconography to create art work.

Pop Art painter Wang Guangyi is one of the typical representatives of Chinese Political Pop Art 90s. He was with the "Cultural Revolution" of political posters placed along with the Western consumer advertising in the works, from his works show the way he use irony to satire consumerism commodity; he also integrate commercial civilization typical image of communism and the Western world, telling the people that China is developing in the world. He paints the subjects of old Chinese propaganda posters, but replaces the old slogans from the Mao Zedong era by typical Western consumer brand labels or advertising slogans. This is a rather straight forward way to express the antagonism and conflicts of today's China.